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To: J Edgar

20 heads in a row? What’s that, 1 in a million times?


6 posted on 11/06/2010 11:04:39 PM PDT by ROTB (Without a Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia during armed revolt.)
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To: ROTB

Yeppers, that would be about right!
1 in 1,048,576 {(1/2)**20} if I remember correctly!

Not impossible, probably better than hitting the Power Ball next time though!

Actually a run of four or five is not as infrequent as intuition might suggest.


17 posted on 11/07/2010 1:53:00 AM PDT by J Edgar
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